Hebrews 4:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and in this [place] again, {G1487} They shall not enter into my rest.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

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High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Ps 95:11 : 11 Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.
Heb 3:11 : 11 As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.
Heb 4:3 : 3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, {G1487} They shall not enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Heb 4:1-4
4 verses
86%
1Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.
2For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.
3For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, {G1487} They shall not enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4For he hath said somewhere of the seventh [day] on this wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works;
Heb 4:6-11
6 verses
84%
6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, {G1519} and they to whom the good tidings were before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,
7he again defineth a certain day, To-day, saying in David so long a time afterward (even as hath been said before), To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts.
8For if Joshua had given them rest, {G302} he would not have spoken {G5023} afterward of another day.
9There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.
10For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.
Heb 3:10-12
3 verses
81%
10Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;
11As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.
12Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:
Heb 3:17-19
3 verses
80%
17And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but {G3361} to them that were disobedient?
19And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
Ps 95:11
78%
11Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.
Isa 28:12
75%
12to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
Exod 16:29-30
2 verses
72%
29See, for that Jehovah hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
30So the people rested on the seventh day.
Heb 3:7
72%
7Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye shall hear his voice,
Gen 2:2-3
2 verses
71%
2And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.
Ps 132:14
71%
14This is my resting-place for ever: Here will I dwell; For I have desired it.
Lev 26:35
71%
35As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Job 3:17
70%
17There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.
Heb 3:15
70%
15while it is said, To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
Exod 31:16-17
2 verses
69%
16Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Heb 6:6
69%
6and [then] fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Exod 34:21
69%
21Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
Heb 12:27
68%
27And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
Deut 12:9
68%
9for ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Heb 5:6
68%
6as he saith also in another [place], Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.
Heb 8:7
68%
7For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then would no {G302} place have been sought for a second.
Heb 11:15
68%
15And if indeed they had been mindful of that [country] from which they went out, they would have had {G302} opportunity to return.
Exod 20:11
67%
11for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Num 4:20
67%
20but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.
Ps 132:8
67%
8Arise, O Jehovah, into thy resting-place; Thou, and the ark of thy strength.
Isa 57:2
67%
2He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.
Ps 132:4-5
2 verses
67%
4I will not give sleep to mine eyes, Or slumber to mine eyelids;
5Until I find out a place for Jehovah, A tabernacle for the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isa 14:7
67%
7The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing.
Matt 11:28
67%
28Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Exod 33:14
67%
14And he said, My presence shall go [with thee], and I will give thee rest.
Isa 32:18
67%
18And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.
Prov 6:10
67%
10[ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:
Job 14:12
66%
12So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.
Exod 20:8
66%
8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Heb 11:40
66%
40God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.